Most of the efforts to analyze the Japanese phenomenon have been in one way or another superficial or misguided. Moreover, there have been so many of them that most of us are simply tired of reading about Japan. This is unfortunate, because an honest look at the Japanese phenomenon can be very...

Entrepreneurship as used here refers to the capacity for innovation, investment, and development of new marekts, products, and techniques. Using this definition, the Japanese have emerged as the world’s foremost entrepreneurs in the last twenty years. It is entrepreneurship that makes...

America’s patent rate (per 100,000 population) rose steeply to 34 from 1820‐1885, hovered between 28‐36 for the next 40 years then started its plunge to the present 18. This article examines the numerous possible causes often found in the literature ‐ expenditures on R&D, poor patent...

Most personnel and OD reading audiences, although prominent for their general silence on the subject, are finally becoming aware of the faddish nature of their “profession”. Many are rightfully embarrassed if asked to explain what happened to the great panaceas of Theory Y, Grid Management,...